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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2006
John Belcea, West Melbourne, FL (US);
Pertti O. Alapuranen, Deltona, FL (US);
Michael S. Johnson, Orlando, FL (US);
Avinash Joshi, Orlando, FL (US);
Robin U. Roberts, Orlando, FL (US);
John Belcea, West Melbourne, FL (US);
Pertti O. Alapuranen, Deltona, FL (US);
Michael S. Johnson, Orlando, FL (US);
Avinash Joshi, Orlando, FL (US);
Robin U. Roberts, Orlando, FL (US);
Motorola Solutions, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided for reliably distributing network management information in and ad hoc multi-hop wireless network which includes a number of existing nodes. A first node selects a particular timeslot in a dedicated channel based on the network management information received from the neighbor nodes and determines, via a contention channel, if the particular timeslot is being used by any neighbor nodes of the first node. If the particular timeslot is determined to be unused, then it is assigned to the first node for periodically transmitting network management information.